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Definition of Piracies

1. piracy [n] - See also: piracy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Piracies

Literary usage of Piracies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary by Joseph Story (1891)
"POWER TO PUNISH piracies AND FELONIES. § 1157. THE next power of Congress is "to define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, ..."

2. Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789 by United States Continental Congress, Worthington Chauncey Ford, Gaillard Hunt, John Clement Fitzpatrick, Roscoe R. Hill, Kenneth E. Harris, Steven D. Tilley, Library of Congress Manuscript Division (1912)
"Agreeable to the order of the day, the report of the committee appointed "to devise and report the mode for appointing courts for the trial of piracies and ..."

3. The Constitution of the United States at the End of the First Century by George Sewall Boutwell (1895)
"piracies AND FELONIES. ART. 1, SEC. 8, PAR. 10. "The Congress shall have power to define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, ..."

4. The Constitutional Law of the United States by Westel Woodbury Willoughby (1910)
"piracies, etc. The power of the United States to define and punish piracies and other crimes committed upon the high seas, and offenses against the law of ..."

5. The History of the Supreme Court of the United States: With Biographies of by Hampton Lawrence Carson (1902)
"COURTS FOR THE TRIAL OF FELONIES AND piracies. CLOSELY allied to the Admiralty jurisdiction which we have just reviewed was the grant to Congress by the ..."

6. An Exposition of the Constitution of the United States by Henry Flanders (1874)
"piracies and Felonies. 168. To Congress is intrusted the power to define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offences against ..."

7. An Exposition of the Constitution of the United States by Henry Flanders (1874)
"piracies and Felonies. 168. To Congress is intrusted the power to define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offences against ..."

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